a new garden ethic cultivating defiant compassion

A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant.. "Benjamin Vogt gives us more than food for thought with A New Garden Ethic; he offers an entire wild ecosystem for mindful action. A New Garden Ethic makes as persuasive a case as can be made for gardens as radical ― to the roots ― ways of knowing the world and reckoning with our place in it. Vogt presents gardens as troubling sanctuaries of meaning, sites of ideological conflict, political statements, expressions of faith, places of cosmic connection, and dirt-under-the-nails realities.